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SPRING CHALLENGE 2017
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Kathy G.20.1- Most Improved Player - Camilla's Task: Finland 100 Years!
Opt. #2- Snow on the cover
by Anita ShreveLink to Paperback:
Light on Snow
Total Points- 35
Bryony 25.6 - Perletwo's task: A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
1. Spring Forward: Read a book from the first 5 pages of Popular Futurism Books or Popular Near-Future Books
Required: State the list you used and the page where your book was found.
I read A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick which is found on page three of popular near future books.
2. Fall Back: Read a book with a genre that contains "historical" or "history" intact on its main book page, e.g., Historical Romance, Microhistory, Military History. The genre can be stand-alone or embedded.
I read The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood which has a genre of historical fiction. This was verified in post 83 of the genre verification thread.
The total page count for the two books must be at least 500 pages
The Penelopiad: 224 pages
A Scanner Darkly: I read an ebook but the mass market paperback (A Scanner Darkly) edition shows 291 pages.
Total: 515 pages
Points this post: 25
Total points: 345
Books read: 24
Tasks completed: 17
Golden oldies: 2
15.6. I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends.GR Friend Skip (among many others) rated 5 stars: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Points = 15
Challenge Total = 15
perletwo15.10. Spring Gardening - Read a book whose author's initials can be found in GARDENING.
Mr. Darcy's Diary by Amanda Grange
Points this task: 15
Total points: 585
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 05
Big Book ticket requests: 02
Books read: 45
Tasks completed: 34
Megs10.3 - Aim High
Read a book that has at least 1,454 5-star ratings on Goodreads.
The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
57264 5-star ratings currently
15.6. I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends.
Read a book that a GR friend has rated 4 or 5 stars.
The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
Rated 4 stars by Dena (Batch of Books)
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 25
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
MegSCL10.10 -The 2017 Rooster
The Mothers
25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Sydney Harbour
Option 2. Shrimp on the Barbie. Avalanche: A Love Story - 144 pages
Option 3. Outback! The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
TOTAL TO DATE
Points: 190 Goldies: 1 Big Books: 0
Readerboard Name: McCathy10.4 - Partners in Crime
Read a book co-authored by two female authors.
Pure Lust Vol. 1 by M.S. Parker & Cassie Wild
End of summary on main page: "You don't want to miss the first book in M.S. Parker and Cassie Wild's newest sexy and twisted collaboration, Pure Lust."
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20.2 - Rookie At The Top - McCathy's Task: Lucky Charms
Option 2: Read a book with a main page genre of "Fairies", "Ireland", or "Irish Literature".
Iced by Karen Marie Moning
MPG Fairies
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20.3 - Best Review - Lauren Jodi's task: Hidden Figures
Option 3: AND THE OSCAR GOES TO … Read a book from the Wikipedia list of films nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. Required: Give the title of the film and the name of the work that it was adapted from.
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Film 12 Years a Slave from Memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
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20.6 – Seasoned Reader - Bookwrm526's Task: Batter Up!!
Option 3: Read a book FIRST published in a year ending with the number 9.
New Tricks by David Rosenfelt
First published in 2009
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20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Play Ball!
1. Read a book written by a single author whose first and last name initials can be found in the phrase “GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE.” Middle initials may be ignored.
The Dark Light of Day by TM Frazier
Author's initials TF in grapeFruiT
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20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Coralie's Task: Over and Under
Read a book that has either "under" or "over" intact in its title, subtitle or author's name.
Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
"Under" in title
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Points this post: 110
Total Points: 280
FANDURY5.6 - Lady Day
Read a book written by an author named Mary or any of the related names found at Behind the Name
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 150
Books Read: 11
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Play Ball!Option 1: Read a book written by a single author whose first and last name initials can be found in the phrase “GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE.”
I read Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 365
Books read: 25
Tasks completed: 18
Golden oldies: 2
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.6 Lady Day
Read a book written by an author named Mary or any of the related names
I read The Good Girl by Mary Kubica.
Challenge 10.3 Aim High
Read a book that has at least 1,454 5-star ratings on Goodreads.
I read The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff. It has been rated 5 stars 2,657 times.
Challenge 20.4 Golden Oldies – Amy O's Task: April Showers?
Option 1: Read a book whose author’s initials can be found in the phrase "APRIL SHOWERS".
I read That Dog Won't Hunt by Lou Allin.
Points this post: 35
Total points: 385
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 33
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
KATIEGIRLRepost 871.
15.2 - May is for Art and Music!
Book 1: A book with graphic novels, sequential art or comics as a main page genre.
Batman: Earth One, Volume 1 by Geoff Johns
Book 2: A book with a musical instrument on the cover.
Another Little Piece of My Heart by Tracey Martin
Ebook only. Approved on verification thread message 6166.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 215
Total tasks: 13
BB total: 2
GO total: 1
KATIEGIRL10.7 - Mad for Plaid
A book with plaid on the cover.
Table Manners by Jeremiah Tower
Approved on Help Thread Message 80.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 225
Total tasks: 14
BB total: 2
GO total: 1
LAVENDER5.2 - Location, Location, Location
Read a book set at least 50% in a location of a modern wonder: England; France; Canada; New York, USA; California,USA; Brazil; Paraguay; Panama; Netherlands
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie ebook I read
The Body in the Library Top MMPB 212 pages
The book takes place entirely in England.
Setting as listed in the book's record:
St. Mary Mead, England (United Kingdom)
Devon, England (United Kingdom)
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 155
Tasks Completed: 10
Books Read: 12
KATIEGIRL25.2 - Who am I? Where am I?
Book 1: A book with the name of a character in the title.
Being Sloane Jacobs by Lauren Morrill
Sloane Jacobs is actually the name of 2 characters in the book.
352 pages
Book 2: A book with the name of a place that's a setting in the book in the the title.
Ten Restaurants That Changed America by Paul Freedman
This book is a history of 10 American restaurants.
560 pages. Claiming as 1 BIG BOOK ticket.
Total of 912 pages (greater than 500 requirement).
Points this post: 25
Total points: 250
Total tasks: 15
BB total: 3
GO total: 1
5.7 Modern Classics. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
On page 1 of list
Points this post: 5
Total points: 55
Bluegrass Pam20.4 Golden Oldies – Amy O's Task: April Showers?
Option #1- authors initials in APRIL SHOWERS
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories by Penelope Lively (ARC edition)
Initials PL in April.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 75
GO Total: 2
reader board name - MAZZA1TASK 5.1
BOOK Pianist in a Bordello 19/03/2017
HOW IT FITS Authors initials M and E in MODERN
TASK 5.2
BOOK The Edible Woman 19/03/2017
HOW IT FITS Set entirely in Canada as per Goodreads Metadata
TASK 5.4
BOOK Swimming Home 14/03/2017
HOW IT FITS fits task 10.2 in Winter tasks (Ring, Sing, Bling word ending in "ing" in title}
TASK 5.5
BOOK Perfect] 20/03/2017
HOW IT FITS page count of 361 includes a 3 as required
TASK 5.8
BOOK The Worm Ouroboros
HOW IT FITS contains the word "WORM" describing a spring moon
TASK 5.9
BOOK The Lie Tree 10/03/2017
HOW IT FITS MPG Mystery noted in help thread
TASK 5.10
BOOK 1913: The Year Before the Storm 14/03/2017
HOW IT FITS free choice read
TASK 10.2
BOOK Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind 14/03/2017
HOW IT FITS Author identified by 2 initials
TASK 10.3
BOOK Out 11/03/2017
HOW IT FITS 4,952 - 5 star ratings exceeds 1,454
TASK 10.4
BOOK Snow Blind16/03/2017
HOW IT FITS Female duo Authors writing under one name PJ Tracy is example used in task setting
TASK 10.8
BOOK
02/03/2017HOW IT FITS Bridge on cover
POINTS THIS POST 75
TOTAL POINTS 75
Total books Read 11
reader board name - MAZZA1 .TASK 15.3
BOOK The Uncommon Reader 27/03/2017
HOW IT FITS OPTION 2 features a mobile library in Buckingham Palace and is written by an Author whose initials A and B are found in NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK
TASK 15.4
BOOK Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries 29/03/2017
HOW IT FITS OPTION 2 Humour MPG and #4 in series
TASK 15.5
BOOK The Girl in the Ice 22/03/2017
HOW IT FITS "GIRL" in the title
TASK 15.6
BOOK At the Water's Edge 28/03/2017
HOW IT FITS given 5 star rating by GR friend Pat Gent https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
TASK 15.10
BOOK The Life We Bury 25/03/2017
HOW IT FITS Authors Initials A and E found in GARDENING
TASK 20.3
BOOK Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World 28/03/2017
HOW IT FITS OPTION 1 Trailblazing Woman (approved in Message 2 of help thread)
TASK 20.4
BOOK Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941 06/03/2017
HOW IT FITS OPTION 1 Authors initials S and W found in APRIL SHOWERS
TASK 20.7
BOOK The Invitation 12/03/2017
HOW IT FITS OPTION 1 Author's initials L and F in GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE
TASK 20.8
BOOK Down Under
HOW IT FITS Title contains word UNDER
TASK 20.9
BOOK The Couple Next Door
HOW IT FITS OPTION 1 on Page 1 of that list
POINTS THIS POST 175
TOTAL POINTS 250
Books read to date 21
MegUnder20.5 - Bigger is Better - Pia's Task: It Was One of Those March Days...This is a ONE book task.
Option 2.- Read a book written by a woman whose first and last name initials can be found in "BE BOLD FOR CHANGE".
The Rose & the Dagger, Renee Ahdieh
Total this post: 20
Total Points: 55
Tasks Completed: 3
MelissaH20.10 Group Reads (repost from #290 with link)
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
Post #9
20.9 Welcome to my Wheelhouse
Option 1
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Found on page 1
Points this post: 40
Total points: 60
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 3
Task 5.5 - March, April, May Read a book with the number of pages as listed on Goodreads that includes the number 3, 4, or 5.
Tamastara, or The Indian Nights (1984) by Tanith Lee (Paperback, 174 pages)
55 + 05 = 60
Tasks Completed: 04
Points for this post: 05
Points thus far: 55 + 05 = 60
Books read: 05
Pages read: 1,543
Read but not claimed: 06
Goodreads Authors: 00
Golden Oldies: 00
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Cait S5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
Read a book of your choice.
Banished by Sophie Littlefield
Points This Post: 5
Big Book Tickets: 1
Total Points: 65/850
Mod
I read Cleopatra: A Life, with 20,411 5 star ratings.
20.9 - Chandni's Task: Welcome to My Wheelhouse
I chose option 4, and read The Godmother - found on p.4 of the Best Fairytales and Retellings list,currently #326 on the list.
25.5 - Brooke TX's Task: Here Comes the Bride!
I chose option A, Old and New.
Book 1 - I read A Study in Scarlet, first published in 1887, well before 1992.
Book 2 - I read The Collapsing Empire, first published in 2017.
Points this post: 55
Total points: 305
Readerboard name MAZZA1 Reposting for task 5.9
The Lie Tree
AR Bookfinder info
The Lie Tree
Hardinge, Frances
AR Quiz No. 180945 EN Fiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17.0
Accelerated Reader Quiz Type Information AR Quiz Types: RP
Book Rating Rating: 3.0
Task requirement is Mystery MPG
Points this post 5
Total points to date 250
Books read to date 21
Shree20.5 - Bigger is Better - Pia's Task: It Was One of Those March Days...
Option 2: Read a book written by a woman whose first and last name initials can be found in "BE BOLD FOR CHANGE".
Soulless by Gail Carriger
Points in Post: 20
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Total Points: 120
Mod
5.4 - Best Laid Plans
Task 15.10 - The Plane! The Plane!, Read a book with an aircraft* on the cover.
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuckwith a plane in the upper left.
5.7- Modern Classics
Modern Classics page 3 3rd down: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
5.9 - Whodunit?
Mystery genre: The Fourth Figure by Pieter Aspe
total = 310
Chris MD5.1 Thoroughly Modern
Author's initials in modeRN
Inner Harbor by Nora Roberts
Total points: 105
Delicious Dee20.1- Most Improved Player – Camilla’s Task: Finland 100 Years!
Option 2 -
Total this post: 20
Total overall: 175
Golden Oldies: 1
10.1 - Catch Some Z'sRead a book with the letter Z in the title or subtitle.
The Kreutzer Sonata
**Claiming Golden Oldie Ticket-published 1889**
Total New Points: 10
Total challenge points: 180
GO's 2
readerboard name: boromom5.1- Thoroughly Modern
author's name can be found in word MODERN
Escape from Asylum
points this post: 5
total points: 20
EMurphy 20.5 Bigger is Better-Pia's Task: It Was One of Those March Days...
Option 1: Word in the title at least four letters that match a word in the quote The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
**share the word "with"
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 55
Books Read: 3
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 3
5.4 - Best Laid Plans I read The Conditions of Love, which fits the Winter Task 15.8 Not-So-Secret (leavening) Agent.
N - 3
A - 1
H - 1
C - 1
O (3's) - 4
Points: 95
Books read: 10
tasks completed: 10
pages read: 3723
Jonquil15.7. It's Contagious!
History of disease pg 1 # 27
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
Randolph M. Nesse
Paperback, 304 pages 3/28
Points this post: 15
Total points: 255
Books posted: 29
Tasks complete: 27
Pages this post: 304
Total pages as of this post: 8025
Jonquil15.8. How do I Get There?
map on the cover (approved in help thread 'cause it's hard to see)
and, unlike EVERY map I've ever used, you can't turn your monitor 90 degrees to decipher it
Foxglove Summer
Ben Aaronovitch
Paperback, 376 pages 3/17
Points this post: 15
Total points: 270
Books posted: 30
Tasks complete: 28
Pages this post: 376
Total pages as of this post: 8401
SSKroutTask 5.9: Whodunit?
Book main page genre mystery
Murder on the Lake
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 5
Post #630.2 - Ava Catherine’s Task-Modern and Contemporary Art
Book 1: Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie first published July 5th 1937
AC found in ART DECO
Book 2: Sleepwalking by Nicola Morgan first published 2004
NM found in CONTEMPORARY ART
Points this post:30
Total Points:120
Books read:10
Tasks Done: 7
Task 15.6 I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends.Read a book that a GR friend has rated 4 or 5 stars. REQUIRED: Give the name of the friend in your post.
My GR friend Karen Michele rated it ****
Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (2016) by Sunil Yapa (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 314 pages)
60 + 15 = 75
Tasks Completed: 05
Points for this post: 15
Points thus far: 60 + 15 = 75
Books read: 06
Pages read: 1,857
Read but not claimed: 06
Goodreads Authors: 00
Golden Oldies: 00
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Diana AKTask10.9 Star Wars Stars
Read a book with an author that shares a name with a Star Wars star
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Catherine Fisher and Carrie Fisher share the same last name.
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 65
Total Tasks: 5
Total Books: 5
Marina H15.5. Girls Just Wanta Have Fun!
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
Points this post: 15
Total points: 180
Big book tickets: 1
Golden Oldies tickets: 3
Tasks completed: 11
15.10. Spring GardeningRead a book whose author's initials can be found in GARDENING.
The Third Man by Graham Greene
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Play Ball!
OPTION 1: Read a book written by a single author whose first and last name initials can be found in the phrase “GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE.”
Little Deaths by Emma Flint
30.5 - Jonquil’s task: There Is No Frigate Like A Book
BOOK 1: Read a book with a cover that shows the type of place where you like to read.
by Ann Patchett.The cover shows a woman behind the driving wheel of a car. I "read" (listen to audio) when I am driving on the school run, and I read print books when I am in the car waiting to pick up my son.
BOOK 2: Read a second book with a cover that shows a different reading spot or a variation on book 1's spot.
by Anne TylerThe cover shows a woman on the beach. If we go to the beach, I definitely take a book with me.
Points this post: 65
TOTAL POINTS: 85
Golden Oldies: -
Big Book Tickets: - (500+); - (750+)
Total tasks completed: 4
Total books read: 5
Delicious Dee5.6 - Lady Day
Never Been Kissed - Molly O'Keefe
Total this post: 5
Total overall: 180
Golden Oldies: 1
5.4 - Best Laid Plans Winter Challenge Task:
5.5 - December, January, February
December is the 12th month, January is the 1st and February is the 2nd. Read a book with the number of pages as listed on Goodreads that includes the number 1 or 2.
160 pages
The Selected Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay
+5 Points
5.6 - Lady Day
Mary:
The Moonspinners by Mary Stewart
+5 Points
5.9 - Whodunit?
Little Wolves by Thomas Maltman
+5 Points
5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti by Christina Rossetti
+5 Points
10.3 - Aim High
86,804 5 star ratings
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
+10 Points
15.3. National Library Week is April 9-15.
OPTION 1:
Book 1 – read a book featuring a library or librarian. If the connection is not apparent in the Goodreads description, explain the connection in your post.
Two libraries and their head librarians play a large part in the story. One is the school library and librarian and the other is the town library and the book group led by the librarian there is a major, weekly event.
Among Others by Jo Walton
Book 2 – read a book with its author's initials in NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK.
nATional
The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
+15 Points
15.9. They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!
Science Fiction 71 users
Don't Turn Around by Michelle Gagnon
+15 Points
20.3 - Best Review - Lauren Jodi's task: Hidden Figures
Pygmalion won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay in 1938.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmali...
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
+20 Points
20.4 – Golden Oldies – Amy O's Task: April Showers?
Option 1: Read a book whose author’s initials can be found in the phrase "APRIL SHOWERS".
SHowers
Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett
+20 Points
25.5 - Brooke TX's Task: Here Comes the Bride!
Option A: Old and New
Book 1: My sister has decided that "old" refers to anything older than she is (for example, me). For this option read a book FIRST published before 1992 (the year she was born).
1968:
The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
Book 2: For something new, read a book FIRST published in 2017.
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
+25 Points
Points this Post: 125
Grand Total: 250
Reader Name: daphne15.7
Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory
On HISTORY OF DISEASE list on page 1
Reader Name: daphne20.7
Option 3
Flames on hands
Bluegrass Pam15.10 Spring Gardening
Author's initials in GARDENING
I listened to the audiobook: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Points this post: 15
Total points: 90
GO Total: 2
Readerboard name: Vicki L.Taks 5.2 - Location, location, location -- 50% set in France
Murder in the South of France by Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Points for this task: 5
10.10 The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix SweeneyPoints this task: 10
20.3 Option 2: Film: Winter's Bone adapted from the novel Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Points this task: 20
20.7 Option 2: Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen
Points this task: 20
Points this post: 50
Total points: 70
perletwo15.9. They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha! - Read a book with the main page genre Science Fiction. The genre may be standalone or embedded (i.e., Fantasy Science Fiction).
Unwind
genre verified here
Points this task: 15
Total points: 600
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 05
Big Book ticket requests: 02
Books read: 46
Tasks completed: 35
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10.6
Read a book set at least 50% in a country/territory from this list that is a home to penguins.
Playing for Love: Escape Down Under by H.Y. Hanna - edition read
Playing for Love - paperback edition
*Set in Australia
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 205
GO This Post/Total: 0
BB This Post/Total: 0